Not sure if paying money is a right way to punish devs for bad decisions. If everyone who hates this bussiness practice will do as you say devs in the end will have made (game price * (count of antimt + count of okay with mt) + whatever money that okay with mt will pay)$. Don’t see how it will make devs stop building…

It sends exactly the correct message. They deserve to have what could have been a big franchise die.

Nah, screw that. These micro-transactions immediately turn this into a game I don’t want to play. And I will spend no money on a game I don’t want to play. I don’t care if that sends the right message or the wrong message. I’m holding onto my money, and playing other games instead.

If you want to send the right message, buy the game but ignore the “market” and convince your friends to do the same. So long as “pay to skip” makes them money be it mobile or AAA, they will keep at it.

If the execs are doing their jobs right and tracking interest in the game they will see a great and sudden drop in interest after this announcement. But you’re right, they will blame it on the IP or developer

worse case scenario: the microtransactions burden the gameplay. THEN we can boycott the game and spam our complaints online. You are totally right that its a mistake to boycott the game just because the MT’s exist.

I’m still buying the game day 1 and I’m not going to spend physical money on Gold. I really loved Shadow of Mordor and I don’t want to miss out on Shadow of War!

I imagine he’ll tell you that this decision was made by Warner Bros!

Yes multiplayer but no details on local or online only

Yep! Minecraft is semi popular over in Japan, but not a phenominon like it is here. The lack of home PC gaming limits Minecraft’s reach. A lot of Japanese kids play the Vita version a lot. So Square Enix was all “let’s wrap some Minecraft building gameplay in the structure and aesthetic of Japan’s favourite video game…

Hang isn’t it?

This feels like the next iteration of Progress Quest.